1st Edition

Philosophical, Educational, and Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits and Supervision Promoting the Values of Wonder, Wander, and Whisper in African Higher Education

By Yusef Waghid Copyright 2024
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education. Written by one of the foremost academics in the field, the book combines the normative philosophical, educational, and moral notions of wonder, wander,... Read more

Chapter 1

University Education and the Quest to Wonder

 

Chapter 2

Wandering and University Education: In Pursuit of Poiesis, Praxis, and Rhythm

 

Chapter 3 

Whispering as studious and playful university education

 

Chapter 4 

On utopianism and doctoral education

 

Chapter 5

Towards ethical pedagogical encounters between supervisors and students

 

Chapter 6

Doctoral Supervision and the Enactment of Democratic Citizenship Education

 

Chapter 7

Doctoral Education and the Enactment of Cosmopolitan Justice

 

Chapter 8

Doctoral Supervision and the Notion of Critique

 

Chapter 9

Doctoral Education as Profanation and Play

 

Chapter 10

A Personal Narrative on Doctoral Adventures 

 

Chapter 11

On Questioning Reasoned and Democratic Universities: Towards an Ubuntu University

 

Chapter 12

On autonomouss, iterative, and restorative doctoral supervision: A glimpse into the future

 

Chapter 13

On Decolonised Doctoral Education

 

Afterword: A Personal Reflection on Conditioned Thought

Biography

Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.